It's Warmer Down Below: the autobiography of Sir Harold Harding, 1900-1986

By Amanda Davey

This is the autobiography of a high profile civil engineer who was regularly the go-to voice for the Channel Tunnel in the 1960s and 1970s, lobbying for one to be built up to the last 2 weeks of his life, when he found out it had been commissioned. He sat on the Aberfan Tribunal, tunnelled a great deal under London, was the founding Chairman of the British Tunnelling Society and an international arbitrator for bridges and tunnel sites around the world. A Director of Mowlem and President of the Institution of Civil Engineers, he wrote with a pithy wit and structural simplicity and it was a pleasure to edit his book.